Page 17 – International Friends of Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center

Snoezelen Room

We recently opened a brand new Snoezelen Room which is also known as a Multisensory Therapy Room, in order to treat our patients by stimulating their senses. The Snoezelen Room is equipped with white padded walls, variety of poofs and mattresses, special lighting-effects pillars and screen, and many other sensory accessories, while a soft music […]

Eating Disorders Department

At Mayanei Hayeshua’s Eating Disorders Department, personal work plans are devised for each patient, fully adapted to their individual needs and pace. The staff is comprised of psychologists, psychiatrists, a wide variety of occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, and teaching staff. The director of the unit is Prof. Danny Stein. The senior team includes social […]

Music Room

In February 2020, Canadian Friends of Mayanei Hayeshua’s Board Chair, David WM Brown together with his wife Helen, visited Mayanei Hayeshua hospital and dedicated a music room in honour of their parents Shirley z”l & Al. G. Brown and Ros and Sam Segal z”l in the Mental Health Centre.The Music Therapy Suite in Mayanei Hayeshua’s […]

The story of ‘M’ – an eyewitness report of a ‘wow’ experience

My recent visit to MAYANEI HAYESHUA Eating Disorders Unit can be described as nothing short of extraordinary. I was part of a truly ‘WOW’ – transformational experience. I met a young woman – let’s call her ‘M’ to protect her privacy – who has been an in-patient in this program for just over a year. […]

Mayanei Hayeshua’s Professor Rael Strous takes London by Storm

In the last week of November 2019, Professor Rael Strous, the South African-born medical director of Mayanei Hayeshua’s Mental Health Centre, and professor of psychiatry at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Medicine, was in London for a busy round of meetings and events organised by the British Friends of Mayanei Hayeshua.

Professor Rael Strous leads training event at major London Hospital

“Food Fight: tackling the stigma of eating disorders,” was the title of a Level 3 annual Safeguarding Children training event covering key aspects and approaches to managing eating disorders. The evening training session at London’s St Pancras Hospital on 26 November 2019 was under the auspices of Mayanei Hayeshua’s Mental Health Centre, and was attended […]

I must say that I haven’t seen a staff with as much compassionate, love for everyone like at Mayanei Hayeshua.

After three years of struggle, holding on with all her strength, her two amazing sons with her day and night, 24/7, with infinite dedication like I’ve never seen before, Silvan’s mother has passed away. I must say that I haven’t seen a staff with as much compassionate, love for everyone like at Mayanei Hayeshua. After […]

Family Therapy Unit

Some of the children treated in Mental Health Center, have another sibling who needs treatment, and sometimes even a few.We figured out that in some of the families parental functioning is impaired either because of the parents’ difficult childhood and lack of proper modeling, or because one of the parents suffers from a mental illness. […]